Hyperrhombus said:
Aiedail256 said:
The Thinker said:
Neither. The universe came first.
Alright, I'll be more specific:
of the chicken and the egg, which came first?
the egg. the dinosaur egg.
Technically still not
completely right, but I'll certainly give that to you. The answers I was prepared to accept were:
a) the egg, because there were egg-laying species long before chickens evolved
b) if you think of the question in the traditional sense: the chicken or the
chicken egg, then the answer is, it depends on whether you associate the "species of an egg" with the animal that laid it or the animal that hatched from it. What we call "chicken" today used to be a different species, but it evolved into chickens. So there was, theoretically, a point where an almost-chicken gave birth to
the first chicken. If you consider the species of an egg to be associated with what laid it, the chicken came first, because the first chicken egg had to have been laid by a pre-existing chicken. If, on the other hand, you associate the species of an egg with what hatched from it, the first chicken hatched from the first chicken egg, so the egg came first.